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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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Saturday’s medal was her sixth in Olympic bobsled competition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

Most of the Jamaican team in Cortina is made up of sprinters who couldn’t catch Usain Bolt, so they climbed in a bobsled instead.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Meyers Taylor’s earliest Olympic ambitions didn’t involve bobsled, ice, or even the winter Games.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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